Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area Which approach to course selection do you thi

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Some college students choose to take courses in a variety of subject areas in order to get a broad education. Others choose to focus on a single subject area in order to have a deeper understanding of that area. Which approach to course selection do you think is better for students and why?

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Average: 8.3 (4 votes)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 541.0 444.711560045 122% => OK
No of words: 134.0 116.580246914 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.03731343284 3.81502700369 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.40232815919 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.27381826424 1.8723322822 121% => OK
Unique words: 93.0 76.076318743 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.694029850746 0.655143326166 106% => OK
Syllable count: 172.8 141.574747475 122% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0581683200269 0.0738818816272 79% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 67.0 60.3232687746 111% => OK
STD paragraph length: 55.0 17.3634065801 317% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 20.89 22.9064221017 91% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.43 6.49597621602 253% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 29.0 31.1548821549 93% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.62068965517 4.0588447711 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.84561117735 3.18357895611 89% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.39620689655 1.46810986539 95% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.873196323436 1.01537252472 86% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 27.0 28.6644219978 94% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.52 5.28593714927 104% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.204444444444 0.187982170178 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.179677351431 0.154715141812 116% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.2 35.408047138 94% => OK
Average word duration: 0.24776119403 0.306236595465 81% => OK
STD word duration: 0.143160706019 0.198589292138 72% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 6.3164983165 16% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.77 5.14435465769 15% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.4 2.80480359147 50% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 41.78 45.0716498316 93% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.928444444444 1.00159221848 93% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.646242221158 0.637764685501 101% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.20727620871 2.58495923209 124% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.22594542843 1.68816559523 132% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.80120481928 2.15290372801 130% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.259459335821 0.343871460585 75% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.